Highlights

Figure out what you’re doing (probably) with this offbeat, optimistic planner. Somewhat imperfect and very human, Unsolicited Advice is a tool for organization now and reflection later as you fill it with your plans, thoughts, goals, and feelings.

This Jan – Dec dated weekly planner has all the normal stuff, and then a lot of... less normal stuff like tiny nagging (''encouragement''), existential prompts, and some possibly-fake holidays so there's always something to look forward to. Monthly overview calendars, check-ins, goal setting, personal space, and activities provide just enough structure as you do your thing. 

Unsolicited Advice more about personal growth than managing every second, so if you miss a couple days, you can jump back in with short recaps to create a personal record of your life (#microjournaling). At a loss for words? Ten sheets of stickers make it even easier to express yourself, with a mix of illustrations and phrases for good days, bad days, and all the days in between. Life is hard sometimes but it's better when we do it together!

Details:

• 5.75 x 7.75 inch trim size
• 228 B&W interior pages
• 100gsm writing paper
• 10 full-color sticker pages (w/ DIY month tabs)
• Large spiral bound lays flat
• Rounded corners, plastic outer cover, elastic closure
• Product info is a peel-off sticker you can throw away because nobody needs some guy's name on their planner all year

GOOD THINGS HAPPEN. LOVE IS REAL. WE WILL BE OKAY.™ 

A little reminder I wrote to myself near the end of 2016 when I was feeling otherwise depressed about... idk like everything basically? Now available to carry in your pocket every single day.

Black text stamped into a silver "motel style" metal tab keychain. Measures 2"x.75" and 2mm thick! Comes on a simple split key ring in small polybag with gifting card.

P.S. Free gift message option at checkout allows for a short note to be printed on the packing list. Our packing lists do not list price information. :)

The OK Tarot deck keeps things simple and leaves the interpretation up to you!

Glossy pink cards featuring "OK" illustrations (and exactly zero of those spooky dead guys) so anyone can find themselves represented within the artwork. This unique deck features all 78 major and minor arcana as understood and interpreted by artist Adam J. Kurtz (that's me). While many decks, such as the classic Rider-Waite, incorporate a ton of rich and detailed illustration, this one… does not. "It's not perfect, but it's OK."

• Standard tarot size (2.75" x 4.75")
• Printed on 350gsm cardstock
• Includes interpretation booklet by AmuNar

Praise for the OK Tarot:

• "Adam's illustrations cut straight to the chase" – Biddy Tarot
• "The stick 'n poke of tarot cards." – ELLE
• "Leaning into our intuition requires we be relaxed, playful, and open… these cards encourage just that." – Chani Nicholas

Tarot has a rich history and the OK Tarot deck is my own small contribution. Read more in the OK Tarot interviews.

The arc of time brings positive change. For then, now, or anytime along the way, this cute little pin offers a colorful pick-me-up.

Metal shape with enamel color fill and a standard pin back. All ADAMJK® enamel pins are 2mm thick (just a little bit sturdier!) and include a rubber clutch. Packaged on a simple card you can personalize before gifting.

Our current supply of this book is signed by the author! Available while they last.

Insights and inspiration for anyone who makes art (or anything else) from someone who's been there (and kind of still is).

Handwritten and heartfelt, this pocket-sized book by designer Adam J. Kurtz offers wisdom and empathy from one working artist to others, with perforated pages to share or display. Less "how to" and more "why even," this book is an encouraging reminder of our inner strength and intrinsic power to create. 

Recommended for creatives, makers, artists, and writers of all kinds, whether you're a professional, hobbyist, still figuring it out, or somewhere in between. 

With a foreword by Design*Sponge founder Grace Bonney.

Praise for Things Are:

• "Serving up optimism and hope" –NYLON
• "Funny, wry, straightforward advice" –Adweek
• "A Colorful, encouraging companion" –Forbes
• "Little nudges out of creative slumps" –BuzzFeed
• "Highly relatable" –Repeller
• "Kind, generous, and empowering" –Cool Hinting
• "Delivers the big pep talks you need" –HelloGiggles
• "Mood boosters for people in any career" –Bustle
• "Filled with wit, warmth, wonder, and wisdom" –Alanis Morissette

HOME IS NOT A PLACE, BUT YOU ARE HOME

Never leave home without remembering that "home" is not a place, but rather an intangible concept and that you are your own home, wherever you go. Wow, ok, sounds great!

This would also make a great zipper pull for "you're moving away and I'm sad but it's okay" luggage.

White text stamped into a black sprayed "motel style" metal tab keychain, a durable keychain that feels good to hold. Measures 2"x.75" and 2mm thick! Comes on a simple split key ring in small polybag with gifting card.

Wow okay so like I literally do not even know what I'm doing????? 

• Embroidery measures approximately 4" across
• ADAMJK tag sewn into interior
• 100% chino cotton twill
• Unstructured, 6-panel, low-profile
• 3 ⅛” crown
• Adjustable strap with buckle
• Head circumference: 20 ½” - 21 ⅝”

EVERYTHING WILL BE SO GOOD SO SOON

A charming reminder to hang in there and hold it together (because it's a keychain see these are puns that are also positive reminders). Things can be hard sometimes. Really, really hard. But then they get better. Or change. Or you change. And while today this is a "cute" keychain there may come a really hard day when seeing this reminder makes all the difference. A gift for yourself or someone you know who might need it.

White text stamped into a black sprayed "motel style" metal tab keychain, a durable keychain that feels good to hold. Measures 2"x.75" and 2mm thick! Comes on a simple split key ring in small polybag with gifting card.

This slightly imperfect star shape is doing it's best, just like you. You tried! Nobody can fault you for trying. Here is a gold star. You deserve it.

Also, can we be real for a second? Sometimes it takes a LOT of effort to even try at all. I feel like it's not unreasonable to celebrate trying. This pin would make a really good "hang in there" gift.

Metal shape with enamel color fill and a standard pin back. All ADAMJK® enamel pins are 2mm thick (just a little bit sturdier!) and include a rubber clutch. Packaged on a simple card you can personalize before gifting.

Pick Me Up is an interactive (shhh art therapy) book-journal-guide-thing from the artist and author of 1 Page at a Time that will help you write and draw your own way through the dark parts. 

This weird, optimistic book pushes you along with unexpected prompts, “existential activities,” some dark humor, and pages that keep you #connected, even when you feel alone. More than anything, you’ll build your own guide now for figuring s*** out later – because someone telling you to “cheer up” is infuriating, but a pep talk from yourself might just work.​

Pick it up and leave your mark. When you come back, leave a little more. Watch yourself change as you record and reflect on where you are and where you’re going.

 

 

Praise for Pick Me Up:

"Pick Me Up is riddled with advice, quirky illustrations, and questionable dad jokes. By poking fun at society's unrealistic expectations surrounding eternal happiness, Kurtz instead works to assist his readers in arriving at their own unique pursuit of contentment..." –VICE

Originally a little doodle and then a pin I figured nobody else but me would actually want? Turns out I wasn't as alone as I thought.

This pin can be positive, negative, or a little bit of both (just like my mood half the time). They're your feelings and they're inherently valid but that doesn't mean you have to deal with them right this second...

Metal shape with enamel color fill and a standard pin back. All ADAMJK® enamel pins are 2mm thick (just a little bit sturdier!) and include a rubber clutch. Packaged on a simple card you can personalize before gifting.

This slightly imperfect star shape is doing it's best, just like you. You tried! Nobody can fault you for trying. Here is a gold star. You deserve it.

Also, can we be real for a second? Sometimes it takes a LOT of effort to even try at all. I feel like it's not unreasonable to celebrate trying. This keychain would make a really good "hang in there" gift. Also available in pin form!

Shiny 1.5" gold enamel star charm comes attached to a standard split keyring.

1 Page at a Time is a journal, scrapbook & anything else. It’s whatever you say it is. Slowly fill the book and by the time it’s done, you’ll have a perfect keepsake of the year you made it through.

It’s full of humor and encouragement, with a self-aware slant. It’s creative inspiration for everyday life. It’s me in a book. I’m your friend, but I’m not afraid to call you out either. Get some sleep! Drink some water! This is the journal that you’re going to actually finish, if it kills us both! It’s also sentimental, introspective and encouraging, with a healthy dose of internet.

Also available in red and blue covers, plus 17 languages worldwide! This is fully just a brag though because I only sell the yellow one on here. 

"The perfect inspirational tool, journal, and way to get to know yourself better" –Powell's Bookstore  Staff Pick

it’s so deeply encouraging to me to remember that ultimately very few things that feel hugely significant now actually matter in the end, not just in a “this too shall pass” way but in a “nobody saw you screw up” way and a “that didn’t need to be perfect anyway” and even a “this whole thing is a game and you can stop playing whenever you want” way. so double tap to heart this post or don’t because it literally doesn’t matter. love you! ❤️

Metal shape with enamel color fill and a standard pin back. All ADAMJK® enamel pins are 2mm thick (just a little bit sturdier!) and include a rubber clutch. Packaged on a simple card you can personalize before gifting.

Perfect for anyone who maybe keeps their true emotions under lock and key, this keychain keeps hanging on and so will you.

Sturdy enamel keychain measures about 1.75" x 1.25" affixed to a silver keyring with a single jump ring.

Initially just a quick joke, this Joy Division "Unknown Pleasures" parody is a commentary on the nature of re-appropriation and ownership, particularly online.

It's also a comfortable t-shirt that you can wear to cover your upper body!!!! The bootleg that's so popular it's been bootlegged itself, available from the one idiot guy who came up with it (me).

"Profoundly clever" – Peter Saville

Over the years this shirt has received a lot of media attention, even being bootlegged itself. Every time I try to stop making it available people ask for it. Selling this shirt got me out of a really difficult financial situation when I first printed them in 2013. I feel a lot of gratitude to the power of one silly idea. So it's here to stay! A funny joke and weirdly now a relic of early-2010s Tumblr culture too.

White ink on a super-soft black Bella + Canvas 100% cotton unisex t-shirt with a tear-out tag. See size chart for more information.

• 100% combed and ring-spun cotton
• Fabric weight: 4.2 oz (142 g/m2)
• Shoulder-to-shoulder taping
• Side-seamed 

Fuzzy wuzzy feelings patch holds all your happy memories for a later time, or traps some difficult stuff so you can deal with it later. Very healthy!

Patch measures approximately 2x3" inches with red and blue thread and white chenille.

ADAMJK embroidered iron-on patches have a classic glue back. To attach to your favorite jacket or bag, just heat with an iron until the glue melts! It's recommended that you put a layer of fabric over the patch to protect the surface. You might also prefer to stitch or safety pin, or if you're like me, just keep a cute patch around as a tiny artwork. 

Let's be honest. You probably need this?

Art measures approximately 4" on left chest. White embroidery thread on black super-soft Bella + Canvas 100% cotton unisex t-shirt with a tear-out tag. See size chart for more information.

• Embroidery measures approximately 4" across
• 100% combed and ring-spun cotton
• Fabric weight: 4.2 oz (142 g/m2)
• Shoulder-to-shoulder taping
• Side-seamed

Fuzzy sunlight patch because SUNLIGHT DOES HELP and you deserve some.

Patch measures approximately 2.5" diameter.

ADAMJK embroidered iron-on patches have a classic glue back. To attach to your favorite jacket or bag, just heat with an iron until the glue melts! It's recommended that you put a layer of fabric over the patch to protect the surface. You might also prefer to stitch or safety pin, or if you're like me, just keep a cute patch around as a tiny artwork. 

I LITERALLY DON'T KNOW WHY I EVEN WENT TO ART SCHOOL??????????

Black and white embroidered patch pretty much says it exactly. Measures 3"x2" inches.

ADAMJK embroidered iron-on patches have a classic glue back. To attach to your favorite jacket or bag, just heat with an iron until the glue melts! It's recommended that you put a layer of fabric over the patch to protect the surface. You might also prefer to stitch or safety pin, or if you're like me, just keep a cute patch around as a tiny artwork. 

A small reminder that the arc of time moves on, and things may not be great right now, but they're better than they were then. Also it's kind of like a rainbow and rainbows are very optimistic.

• Embroidery measures approximately 4" across left chest
• 100% combed and ring-spun cotton (heather colors contain polyester)
• Fabric weight: 4.2 oz (142 g/m2)
• Shoulder-to-shoulder taping
• Side-seamed

Fuzzy moonlight patch adds a little bit of love and possibility to your life. Hey, that's amore!

Patch measures approximately 2.5" diameter.

ADAMJK embroidered iron-on patches have a classic glue back. To attach to your favorite jacket or bag, just heat with an iron until the glue melts! It's recommended that you put a layer of fabric over the patch to protect the surface. You might also prefer to stitch or safety pin, or if you're like me, just keep a cute patch around as a tiny artwork. 

These digital gifts can be used towards the purchase of any items on my website, from books and stationery to pins, apparel, and future releases like my upcoming 2021 weekly planner.

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